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Oxygen storage material and method for producing the same

a technology of oxygen storage material and oxygen atom, which is applied in the direction of physical/chemical process catalyst, separation process, and other chemical processes, can solve the problems of difficult solid-dissolving copper into a ceria-zirconia composite oxide, and achieve the effects of reducing the bonding strength of adjacent oxygen atoms, and reducing the difficulty of solid-dissolving copper

Active Publication Date: 2020-04-14
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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[0009]Then, the present inventors have further conducted a number of intensive studies, and consequently found that by selecting copper as an element to be added to a ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide and producing a composite oxide that contains cerium, zirconium, and copper by a so-called solution combustion synthesis method, it becomes possible to cause a sufficient amount of copper to be contained and solid-dissolved into a ceria-zirconia composite oxide, and to further allow the composite oxide obtained to have a sufficiently large specific surface area, enabling an oxygen storage material that is capable of exhibiting an excellent oxygen storage capacity (OSC) even at a low temperature of about 300° C. and has a sufficiently high efficiency of use of cerium contained therein to be obtained. These findings have led to the completion of the present invention.
[0027]Note that although it cannot be said to be clear why the oxygen storage material and a method for producing the same according to the present invention as described above can achieve the above-described object, the present inventors surmise as described below. Specifically, in the method for producing an oxygen storage material of the present invention, copper is selected as an element to be added to the ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide and a composite oxide that contains cerium, zirconium, and copper is produced through a so-called solution combustion synthesis method. This makes it possible to allow a sufficient amount of copper to be contained and solid-dissolved into a ceria-zirconia composite oxide, and further makes it possible to obtain a composite oxide having a sufficiently large specific surface area because a high-temperature treatment is not conducted. For these reasons, in the ceria-zirconia-copper oxide-based composite oxide included in the oxygen storage material of the present invention, part of the tetravalent Zr site in a composite oxide of cerium and zirconium is substituted with divalent Cu, so that the bonding strength of adjacent oxygen atoms is weakened. Moreover, the specific surface area is sufficiently large. The present inventors surmise that because of these factors, the oxygen storage material of the present invention becomes capable of exhibiting an excellent oxygen storage capacity (OSC) even at a low temperature of about 300° C., and thus it becomes possible to obtain a oxygen storage material that has a sufficiently high efficiency of use of cerium contained.
[0028]The present invention makes it possible to provide an oxygen storage material that is capable of exhibiting an excellent oxygen storage capacity (OSC) even at a low temperature of about 300° C. and has a sufficiently high efficiency of use of cerium contained therein, and a method for producing the same.

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First, as a result of selecting and studying copper as an element to be added to a ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide, the present inventors found that it is difficult to solid-dissolve copper into a ceria-zirconia composite oxide by methods such as so-called co-deposited method, reverse co-deposited method, and hydrothermal synthesis method.

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[0068]The target composition was set to Ce0.5Zr0.45Cu0.05O1.95, and a ceria-zirconia-copper oxide composite oxide having the above-described composition was obtained through the solution combustion synthesis method as described below.

[0069]Specifically, cerium nitrate, zirconium nitrate, and copper nitrate in a stoichiometric ratio were dissolved in amounts of charge shown in Table 1 into the minimum amount of pure water shown in Table 1 at ordinary temperature so as to obtain the target composition. After it was confirmed that the solution became transparent, glycine in an amount corresponding to two equivalents with respect to the total amount of cations and shown in Table 1 was dissolved to obtain a mixed solution (solution). Next, the obtained mixed solution was put into an alumina crucible, followed by firing at 400° C. for 2 hours in the ambient atmosphere in a degreasing furnace to obtain a powder of a ceria-zirconia-copper oxide composite oxide having the above-described com...

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[0070]The target composition was set to Ce0.5Zr0.4Cu0.1O1.9, and a powder of a ceria-zirconia-copper oxide composite oxide having the above-described composition was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that the amount of each reagent was changed to an amount shown in Table 1.

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Abstract

To provide an oxygen storage material that is capable of exhibiting an excellent oxygen storage capacity (OSC) even at a low temperature of about 300° C. and has a sufficiently high efficiency of use of cerium contained therein.An oxygen storage material including a ceria-zirconia-copper oxide-based composite oxide that contains cerium, zirconium, and copper, in whichat least part of the copper is solid-dissolved in a composite oxide of the cerium and the zirconium,the ceria-zirconia-copper oxide-based composite oxide has a composition expressed by the following chemical formula (1):CexZryCuzO2-z  (1)where x, y, and z are numbers each satisfying conditions of x=0.3 to 0.7, y=0.15 to 0.7 (exclusive of y=0.7), z=0 to 0.15 (exclusive of z=0), and x+y+z=1, anda specific surface area of the ceria-zirconia-copper oxide-based composite oxide is 2 to 50 m2 / g.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONField of the Invention[0001]The present invention relates to an oxygen storage material and a method for producing the same.Related Background Art[0002]A so-called three-way catalyst is known as a catalyst for purification of exhaust gas that is capable of oxidizing carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrocarbon (HC) in exhaust gas emitted from internal combustion engines such as automotive engines and reducing nitrogen oxide (NOx) therein at the same time.[0003]Along with purifying an exhaust gas using a catalyst for purification of exhaust gas, it is known to use, as a support or a promoter for the catalyst for purification of exhaust gas, a material having an oxygen storage capacity (OSC), that is, capable of storing oxygen when the concentration of oxygen in the exhaust gas is high and capable of releasing oxygen when the concentration of oxygen in the exhaust gas is low in order to absorb variations in the concentration of oxygen in the exhaust gas and to thus ...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B01J20/00B01J20/02B01J20/28B01D53/94
CPCB01J20/0237B01J20/28059B01D53/9445B01D2255/908B01J23/002B01J23/10B01J23/83B01J35/1009B01J35/1014B01J2523/00C01B13/0203C01G25/006B01J2523/17B01J2523/3712B01J2523/48Y02T10/12
Inventor GOTO, YOSHIHIROMORIKAWA, AKIRAMIURA, MASAHIDESUZUKI, HIROMASA
Owner TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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